Acting

Kanta Kisaragi

Born — Died

1905-12-21 — 1985-03-14

Known for

Acting

Credits

48 titles

Known for

Professional Killers poster
8.0

A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...

Professional Killers

1972

Rodan poster
6.5

Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature. Soon a second monster appears as the two converge in Fukuoka.

Rodan

1956

Crazy Operation: First Move poster
10.0

After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various fields gather around him and with their natural vitality, they solve one dispute after another. But as it turns out, their next dispute will be at a global scale.

Crazy Operation: First Move

1963

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto poster
7.2

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

1954

Sanpei Mejiro Story: My Wife poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sanpei Mejiro Story: My Wife

1957

Beyond The Stars poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Beyond The Stars

1956

Film credits

1950s · 27 titles

Rodan poster
6.5

Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature. Soon a second monster appears as the two converge in Fukuoka.

Rodan

1956

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto poster
7.2

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

1954

Sanpei Mejiro Story: My Wife poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sanpei Mejiro Story: My Wife

1957

Beyond The Stars poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Beyond The Stars

1956

Otora-san poster
NR

The first of six "Otora-san" features.

Otora-san

1957

The Band in Paradise: Acharaka Is Born poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Band in Paradise: Acharaka Is Born

1956

Otora-san at His Best poster
NR

The third "Otora-san" feature.

Otora-san at His Best

1958

Frame of Snow poster
10.0

During a winter visit to her grandfather’s mountain home, a young saleswoman becomes entangled in love and jealousy among visiting skiers. After heartbreak and tragedy in the snow, she departs renewed, ready to begin again.

Frame of Snow

1955

Big Edo's 1,000 Ryo Festival poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Big Edo's 1,000 Ryo Festival

1958

The Band in Paradise: Acharaka's Big Hit poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Band in Paradise: Acharaka's Big Hit

1956

Norihei's College Affair: The Happy Family poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Norihei's College Affair: The Happy Family

1956

Will-o'-the-Wisp poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Will-o'-the-Wisp

1956

A Long, Comic Story — Houses at the Summer Festival poster
NR

Hachigoro, a carpenter living in the Rakugo Tenement, is an honest and skilled craftsman, but he loves sake more than his three daily meals, and had even been barred from entering the Akasaiya shop where he worked. However, thanks to the intervention of the landlord he was fortunately allowed back in, and Oka, the landlord’s maid who had long harbored feelings for Hachigoro, sent him a celebratory kimono as a gift.

A Long, Comic Story — Houses at the Summer Festival

1954

Laugh-Filled Detective Story poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Laugh-Filled Detective Story

1958

A Young Lady on Her Way poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Young Lady on Her Way

1956

Comical Detective Story: Hatchan's First Adventure poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Comical Detective Story: Hatchan's First Adventure

1955

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen poster
9.0

Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen

1957

Jirocho's Surprise: Haikagura, Kiso's Fire Festival poster
NR

The fourth an final film in the "Jirocho igaiden" series.

Jirocho's Surprise: Haikagura, Kiso's Fire Festival

1958

Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker poster
10.0

1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.

Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker

1953

A Long, Comic Story of Houses in Their Prime poster
NR

Soemon, the master of Gidayū-style madcap performances, has gathered the entire tenement block again tonight and is tormenting everyone with his terrible Gidayū singing.

A Long, Comic Story of Houses in Their Prime

1954

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Record of a Crafty Gentleman

1956

Muttsuri Umon's Detective Stories: The Demon Mask Mansion poster
7.0

1955 Japanese movie

Muttsuri Umon's Detective Stories: The Demon Mask Mansion

1955

The Story of Iron Arm Inao poster
8.0

An Ishiro Honda film.

The Story of Iron Arm Inao

1959

This Love Costs 50 Million Yen poster
NR

Chōsokabe Kyutaro, notorious as a master swindler, abandons Tokyo and flees to Watakano Island near the Shima Peninsula. Upon hearing that the Tawarado family, the island’s wealthiest clan, was desperately searching for their missing heir, Kyutaro, he immediately disguises himself as Kyutaro and makes his way there.

This Love Costs 50 Million Yen

1954

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nonsense Detective Story: The Phantom Woman

1952

Diary of the First Incredible Laughing Trip poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Diary of the First Incredible Laughing Trip

1955

Onna daigaku yakyūkyō jidai poster
NR

Japanese comedy film.

Onna daigaku yakyūkyō jidai

1956

1940s · 6 titles

1930s · 11 titles

No artwork available
NR

Enoken plays a frog-oil-hawking conman whose claims to martial prowess land him in hot water with the local samurai gentry - but not before he falls in love with exactly the wrong girl. Another musical comedy period film quick on the heels of the earlier Kondo Isami.

Enoken's Donguri Tonbei

1936

No artwork available
NR

Enoken's anachronistic take on the beloved (and already very funny) Edo-period novel "Shank's Mare," aka Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, in which Yaji and Kita, two plebeian nobodies, have all sorts of strange and colorful encounters on the long road from Edo to Kyoto.

Enoken's Yaji and Kita

1939

Romantic and Crazy poster
NR

In 1930s Tokyo, the energetic Enoken and his ragtag group of friends navigate a series of chaotic misadventures involving romance and poverty.

Romantic and Crazy

1934

Enoken’s Shrewd Period poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Enoken’s Shrewd Period

1939

Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 2 – Returning Is Scary, but the Weather Will Clear If You Wait poster
7.5

1930s Japanese comedy.

Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 2 – Returning Is Scary, but the Weather Will Clear If You Wait

1937

Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 1 – Momma, the Hat: The Nice Way poster
8.0

A comedic tale told in four parts, this film follows the antics of the pickpocket Kinta as he is pursued by a low ranking deputy named Kurakichi. The two get into all manner of peccadilloes and encounter a range of peculiar characters as their game of cat and mouse moves across the countryside in the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 1 – Momma, the Hat: The Nice Way

1937

No artwork available
NR

An irreverent take on a medieval Noh drama, Hokaibo sees Enoken play the titular monk whose lusts drive him to murder.

Enoken's Hokaibo

1938

No artwork available
NR

The legendary ninja Kurama Tengu (Enoken) uses his superhuman powers to help free a band of street urchins from their Fagin-like master. The film's incredible climax, when Enoken fends off dozens of men attacking with ladders and handcarts, brings to mind a slightly less dextrous Jackie Chan.

Enoken's Kurama Tengu

1939

No artwork available
NR

Enoken plays legendary ninja Sarutobi Sasuke, whose magical powers never help as much as expected - in war or in love.

Enoken's Sarutobi Sasuke

1937

No artwork available
NR

Enoken plays both Kondo Isami and his deadly enemy Sakamoto Ryoma in this comedic, song-filled vision of the Meiji Restoration.

Enoken's Kondo Isami

1935

Rivals poster
NR

Two hyper-competitive salarymen let their workplace rivalry spill over into their private lives, as both men try to one-up each other on a luxurious beach vacation neither's family can afford.

Rivals

1939

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